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Latino history largely ignored in U.S. textbooks, study finds

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:20 GMT

Though the percentage of Latino students is on the rise in the U.S., high school textbooks used across the country largely ignore Latino history, a new study has found.Researchers with Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and UnidosUS, a national Latino advocacy and research organization, developed a list of 222 important Latino history topics, but found only 12% of those were covered well.The study, released Tuesday, comes amid a rise in the number of Hispanic students in U.S. public schools. Between the fall of 2009 and fall of 2020, the percentage of Hispanic public school students increased from 22% to 28%, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.Recent growth in the U.S. Hispanic population has been largely driven by births rather than by immigration, the Pew Research Center said in 2022.Hispanic students are currently projected to become 30% of the U.S. student population by 2030, according to federal education data.More inclusion in textbooks wonR...

New study shows Colorado does not have the worst drivers

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:20 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- While Colorado drivers rank in the bottom half of drivers in other states, they aren't the worst in the United States.A new study by Forbes shows that Colorado actually ranks number 19 when it comes to worst drivers across the country. Deputy in El Paso County catches driver going 113 mph The study compared all states on six metrics:Number of drunk drivers involved in fatal car accidents per 100,000 licensed driversNumber of fatal car accidents involving a distracted driver per 100,000 licensed driversNumber of fatal car accidents involving a drowsy driver per 100,000 licensed driversNumber of fatal car accidents involving a driver who was driving the wrong way on a one-way street or on the wrong side of the road per 100,000 licensed driversNumber of fatal car accidents involving a driver who failed to obey traffic signs, traffic signals or a traffic officer per 100,000 licensed driversNumber of drivers who looked at a phone per mileWhich states have the worst dri...

Denver cracks into top 10 for wettest May on record

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:20 GMT

 DENVER (KDVR) — It has been a wet start to spring and now Denver is officially on the list for the top 10 wettest Mays on record.As of May 17, 4.70 inches of rainfall has been recorded at Denver International Airport for the month. This amount is enough to put May 2023 on the list as the tenth wettest May on record for Denver. How dandelions benefit lawns, gardens and critters This beats the 4.67 inches of rainfall in May of 1995 and is still behind the ninth-place spot, which is 4.77 inches in May of 1967. All it will take is another quarter of an inch of rainfall to tie the number five spot of wettest Mays in Denver, set in 1935. The wettest May on record was 8.57 inches back in 1876, which is still the wettest month ever recorded for Denver. There is still another two weeks left in May, and more showers are in the forecast. The Denver area is on track for another 0.4 inches of rainfall. Climate outlook shows rain in forecast through end of May If that amount of rainfall i...

Colombian government official ‘confident’ four children were found alive days after jungle crash

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:20 GMT

(CNN) — A Colombian government official is “very confident” four children were found alive 17 days after their plane crashed in the Amazon jungle but is awaiting further proof.The Director of Colombia’s Family Affairs Institute, Astrid Caceres, said her team received second hand confirmation that search teams rescued and identified the children missing following the crash of a small airplane in southern Colombia.Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro tweeted that the group were found alive but what would be an extraordinary survival story is yet to be confirmed, with government officials battling poor communications and yet to make direct contact with the children.The children, aged between 11 months old and 13, were found after the Colombian Armed Forces followed a trail of small objects such as hair scrunchies, plastic wrappings and baby bottles that led them to the missing group, authorities said.Asked why the police and military were continuing search efforts despite reports that th...

EU commissioner resigns — Bulgaria’s breaking point — European elections 2024

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:20 GMT

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Stitcher .st0{fill:#EB8A23;} .st1{fill:#FAC617;} .st2{fill:#612368;} .st3{fill:#3792C4;} .st4{fill:#C33727;} Acast This week, we dive into the political upheaval in Bulgaria and the resignation of the country’s EU Commissioner Mariya Gabriel. And we begin our spotlight series on the European Parliament, as the dat...

I’ll kick all refugees out of Turkey, Erdoğan rival vows

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:20 GMT

The leader of Turkey’s opposition has pledged to repatriate millions of refugees to their home countries, toughening his rhetoric ahead of a hotly contested runoff election next week.In a speech Thursday, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu claimed that his rival, longtime President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has “deliberately allowed ten million refugees into Turkey,” saying the incumbent has put “Turkish citizenship on sale to get imported votes.”“I am announcing here: I will send all refugees back home once I am elected as president, period,” he declared, according to Turkish media.Turkey is home to the largest number of refugees anywhere in the world, hosting an estimated four million displaced people, many from Syria and other Arab countries.In 2016, as the Continent grappled with a growing refugee crisis, the EU signed a deal with Ankara “aimed at stopping the flow of irregular migration via Turkey to Europe.” The country has received around €10...

Initial jobless claims fell last week as fraudulent activity in Massachusetts clouds data

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:20 GMT

Minneapolis (CNN) — The number of first-time claims for weekly jobless benefits fell last week to 242,000, down 22,000 from 264,000 the week before, according to data published Thursday by the Department of Labor.Continuing claims, which are filed by people who have received jobless benefits for more than one week, dipped to 1.799 million for the week ended May 6 from a revised 1.807 million the week prior.Economists were forecasting the latest initial and continuing claims to land at a seasonally adjusted 254,000 and 1.818 million, respectively, according to consensus estimates on Refinitiv.However, reports of incidents of fraud in Massachusetts have muddied this key piece of economic data in recent weeks.A week ago, the Department of Labor’s report on unemployment insurance filings showed that the number of weekly initial claims jumped by 22,000 to land at their highest level since October 2021. However, a large share of those new claims came from Massachusetts, where the sta...

Drivers Not Ruling Out Another Ballot Question Bid

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:20 GMT

Mark Austin, an Uber and Lyft driver who earned $150 by early Wednesday morning through the ride-hailing apps, pleaded with state lawmakers outside the State House to not strip away workers’ independence by classifying them as employees.A retired chef, Austin said driving for the ride-hailing services is the “best job” he’s ever had. The Weymouth resident said he makes money based on “ingenuity, time and effort” while manipulating his own schedule six days each week.“My message is: Why fix what’s not broken?” Austin said. “My opinion, if you change this, you’ll break it and destroy all the good things that come from it.”Austin and other app-based drivers joined the latest push from the Massachusetts Coalition for Independent Work — funded by Uber, Lyft and Instacart — to maintain their independent contractor status and reject labor unions’ efforts to install employee protections.It’s uncl...

AI Institute Launching At UMass Boston

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:20 GMT

A new institute at UMass Boston will focus on the social, ethical and diversity challenges and opportunities associated with artificial intelligence.The university on Wednesday introduced the Paul English Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute, saying it was conceived and funded by tech entrepreneur and UMass Boston alumnus Paul English and would be “embedded in academic study across campus.”UMass Boston Provost Joseph Berger predicted the institute “will promote the democratization of artificial intelligence by empowering every UMass Boston student to graduate with fluency — and a competitive edge — in ethically leveraging evolving AI-powered tools to improve processes and outcomes in their chosen professional field.”The opportunities for artificial intelligence to deliver promising advances, and potentially dangerous outcomes, have been coming into sharper focus this year, and the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday held a public ...

A growing number of sports bras, shirts and leggings brands found with high levels of toxic chemical, watchdog warns

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:17:20 GMT

New York (CNN) — An increasing number of sports bra and athletic wear brands have been found with high levels of BPA in them, a chemical compound that’s used to make certain types of plastic and can lead to harmful health effects such as asthma, cardiovascular disease and obesity, a watchdog group said on Wednesday.After warning customers in October about BPA in athletic clothes, the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) said it sent legal notices to eight more brands whose leggings, shorts, sports bras, and athletic shirts after testing showed the clothing could expose wearers to up to 40 times the safe limit of BPA, based on standards set in California.Under California law — specifically Proposition 65, enacted in 1986 — the maximum allowable dose level for BPA via skin exposure is 3 micrograms per day.California-based CEH, which conducted the testing, was founded in 1996 as a nonprofit consumer advocacy group. It has raised alarm bells over chemicals in furnit...